[HN Gopher] LLMs as the new high level language
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       LLMs as the new high level language
        
       Author : swah
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2026-02-03 10:00 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | toprerules wrote:
       | After working with the latest models I think these "it's just
       | another tool" or "another layer of abstraction" or "I'm just
       | building at a different level" kind of arguments are wishful
       | thinking. You're not going to be a designer writing blueprints
       | for a series of workers to execute on, you're barely going to be
       | a product manager translating business requirements into a
       | technical specification before AI closes that gap as well. I'm
       | very convinced non-technical people will be able to use these
       | tools, because what I'm seeing is that all of the skills that my
       | training and years of experience have helped me hone are now
       | implemented by these tools to the level that I know most
       | businesses would be satisfied by.
       | 
       | The irony is that I haven't seen AI have nearly as large of an
       | impact anywhere else. We truly have automated ourselves out of
       | work, people are just catching up with that fact and the people
       | that just wanted to make money from software can now finally stop
       | pretending that "passion" for "the craft" was every really part
       | of their motivating calculus.
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | These models are nothing short of astounding.
       | 
       | I can write a spec for an entirely new endpoint, and Claude
       | figures out all of the middleware plumbing and the database
       | queries. (The catch: this is in Rust and the SQL is raw, without
       | an ORM. It just gets it. I'm reviewing the code, too, and it's
       | mostly excellent.)
       | 
       | I can ask Claude to add new data to the return payloads - it does
       | it, and it can figure out the cache invalidation.
       | 
       | These models are blowing my mind. It's like I have an army of
       | juniors I can actually trust.
        
       | TZubiri wrote:
       | "Following this hypothesis, what C did to assembler, what Java
       | did to C, what Javascript/Python/Perl did to Java, now LLM agents
       | are doing to all programming languages."
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       | This is not an appropriate analogy, at least not right now.
       | 
       | Code Agents are generating code from prompts, in that sense the
       | metaphor is correct. However Agents then read the code and it
       | becomes input and they generate more code. This was never the
       | case for compilers, an LLM used in this sense is strictly not a
       | compiler because it is not cyclic and not directional.
        
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